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After reading the Feb. 8 Tribune article “Ft. Hood wounded, dead to receive Purple Hearts” (News), I took a moment or two to pause. My understanding is that in most instances Purple Hearts are awarded to those Americans in uniform who are killed or injured as a direct result of armed conflict with an established and recognized enemy of the United States. But this definition may exclude the awarding of this medal to deserving Americans who are killed or injured as a result of less direct enemy causes. This includes, but is not limited to, some American POWs (prisoner of war) who die while in captivity, such as from intentional starvation or beatings, or those...

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After reading the Feb. 8 Tribune article “Ft. Hood wounded, dead to receive Purple Hearts” (News), I took a moment or two to pause.
My understanding is that in most instances Purple Hearts are awarded to those Americans in uniform who are killed or...

Texas lived up to its reputation for swift justice by taking just three days to seat a jury for the trial of the man charged with killing the former Navy SEAL depicted in "American Sniper." But jury selection in two other major U.S. cases is...

The Army's tools for identifying troubled soldiers would not have flagged the man who shot to death three people and wounded 16 others before killing himself at Fort Hood last year, despite previous signs of instability, a U.S. Army report said...

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser was right to speak out on the terrorist attacks in Paris. Washington and Paris have been sister cities since 2000. Those heinous acts against freedom of speech, Bowser noted, only strengthen the bond between the two...

The lone wolf is the new national nightmare, dramatized and amplified this week by the hostage-taking attack in Sydney. But there are two kinds of lone wolves — the crazy and the evil — and the distinction is important.
The real terrorists are...

There are many profound inscriptions on the lobby walls of the Chicago Tribune, from great poets, philosophers, justices, each celebrating liberty and the mind of Western man.
But with the news out of Paris that Islamic terrorists killed at least a dozen...

Normandy, France, Autumn, 2010: I was taking a tour with a group of sightseers from all over the world led by a lovely young French woman. The weather was cool and rainy, which seemed apropos since I was touring the site of D-Day, which marked the start...

President Barack Obama stopped for a few hours in his hometown today, and what was supposed to be a quick visit for two Democratic fundraisers also included the president’s first opportunity to express concern over the shootings at Fort Hood.
“We’re...

An Effingham-born soldier was killed during a mass shooting at Ford Hood on Wednesday, a relative confirmed today.
Timothy Owens, who was born in Effingham and later moved to Missouri, died after apparently being shot at close range, said Darlene “Dee”...

A day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 45 years ago, a 4-year-old girl, abandoned and crying, stood in front of a burning building a few blocks from the West Side apartment where the civil rights leader had lived during his...

I have been a Cubs fan since 1948, so I have seen some poor baseball. However, it is time to release Marmol for the Cubs' good and also for his own good. Bill A., Newburgh, Ind. I don’t really see that happening, at least not until they exhaust all...

U.S. Army World War II veteran, Frank Andrews, 94, will be presented six awards, including the Purple Heart, from Brig. Gen. Gracus K. Dunn, Commanding General of the 85th Support Command and Deputy Commanding General for Support of First Army, Division...

Ft. Hood, the Texas base that was the site of the worst mass shooting on a military installation, shares a similar sad chapter with Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where one of the worst civilian shooting massacres took place.
In both...

In Fort Hood shooter sentenced to death we learn that U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan is getting his wish, a death sentence for "killing 13 people and wounding 31 others in a November 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas." ...

I can't agree with your implication, or flat out statements, derogatory of Cubs manager Quade. He's probably what this team deserves. He stays positive and uses the limited talent he has to work with. I can't imagine Lou Piniella keeping his cool and...

T.J. Hromisin's parents haven't left his side since the young man returned from Iraq in 2007 blinded, with a traumatic brain injury and unable to care for himself.
An Iraqi sniper had shot the 24-year-old in his left temple, expertly targeting a small...

U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh said that a “politically correct” U.S. government was so fearful of offending Islam that it failed to prevent the Fort Hood massacre.Walsh, a first-term Republican congressman with tea party support, told an audience in Elk Grove...

A link to the Twitter feed of "Jessica Redfield," real name Jessica Ghawi, a victim of the movie-theater massacre in Aurora, Colo., has been going around the Web today. It's hard to know what to say about these grotesque mass ...

We â¦ suffer from a larger American unwillingness to acknowledge political violence. â¦ The historic free flow of ideas in this country means that pernicious ones will lodge in the minds of very bad actors. ... The solution is not ...